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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
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Broken
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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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Someday I'll tell you all of it, I say. I'd like that, he says. No, I say. I promise you won't.
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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
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Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.
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Don't you miss it? I say. Being free. He laughs.
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We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.
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I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.
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There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
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There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.
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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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It's never right to give up on someone.
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None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.
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He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.
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I lost everyone I loved, I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, The day I met you.
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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other. Pg 225
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There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
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Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.
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